Instead, pick any point on the compass and strike out uptown, downtown or cross-town to find an altogether more authentic slice of city, along with plenty of evidence that keeping cool in summertime New York is far from thirsty work.

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Book browsing is hungry and thirsty work, but there are plenty of options for a prolonged stop: pull up a chair at one of the many cafes that surround the city's squares or head for the Mosae Gusto underground food hall.

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This is all thirsty work.

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Literally dozens of new bars have opened here, luring thirsty after-work businessmen with 24-hour beer barns, dance clubs, karaoke bars, an Irish Pub, a refrigerated "ice" bar and plenty of cheap eats to soak it all up.

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Leveaux said Bloom came aboard first several years ago, thirsty to try his hand at the work despite the director saying there were easier ways to make his Broadway debut.

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The two partners will work together to integrate MotoCyzysz's electric D1g1tal Dr1ve powertrain into otherwise diesel-thirsty Stark SUVs.

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